Birks v. East Side Transfer Co.

This is an appeal by East Side Transfer Company from a judgment, based upon a verdict, which was entered against it. A second defendant, Clyde Hollenbeck, was absolved by the jury from the charges made in the complaint and is not a party to this appeal. The action out of which the challenged judgment arose was based upon charges of negligence made against both defendants and averments that, as a result of the negligence, the plaintiff suffered a personal injury.

According to the plaintiff-respondent, he was injured June 14, 1948, at 4:30 p. m., when a motorcycle which he was riding collided…